James Grover McDonald to Anna Wilmarth Ickes, January 18, 1927

NEW YORK NY JAN 18 [1927] [stamped]

AM VERY SORRY THAT UNBREAKABLE ENGAGEMENT HERE PREVENTS MY ATTENDING DINNER. IT WOULD HAVE GIVEN ME THE GREATEST PLEASURE TO EVIDENCE BY MY PRESENCE SOMETHING OF MY APPRECIATION OF THE [BRILLIANT] AND COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP JANE ADDAMS HAS GIVEN FOR [A] GENERATION TO THE CONSTRUCTIVE SOCIAL FORCES IN THIS COUNTRY MOREOVER BECAUSE OF HER DEVOTED PATRIOTISM WHICH SHE COMBINES FARSIGHTED UNDERSTANDING OF THE FUNDAMENTAL RELATIONS BETWEEN PEOPLES SHE HAS BEEN AN UNFAILING INSPIRATION TO MILLION OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE FIGHTING FOR A WARLESS WORLD. ALL HONOR TO HER

JAMES G MCDONALD

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